[When, a few weeks ago, military dictator Hugo…]

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When, a few weeks ago, military dictator Hugo Banzer announced that there would be 'free' presidential elections in June and that he himself would not be a candidate, it had all the hallworks of a manoeuvre ultimately designed to keep him in power.

The last week has shown, perhaps, what he had in mind.

In response to a new wave of workers' and students' protests against Banzer's failure to grant an amnesty to political prisoners and exiles, the dictater threatened to call the elections off "if the people ask us to do so, as they surely will if the conspiring continues"

What he calls "the conspiring" consists of a series of public hunger strikes by several hundreds of students and workers, a one-day strike in the tin mines called by the mineworkers' federation on January 11 and proposed strikes by factory workers in Cachabamba and La Paz.

BELGUIM

In the first major outbreak of militancy since last spring's strike wave against the Coalition Government's economic policies, petrol workers plan an indefinite strike from January 17 in support of a demand for a cut in the working week from 40 to 36 hours. of the national economy, di 1s not parasitic but ind pendent of foreig countries"

In the age of imperialist there is of course no wa that capitalism can fulf these conditions in a devel ping economy.

Opportunity That will not stop thes fake leaders from betrayin the Tunisian workers an peasants to internation: imperialism at the first avai able opportunity.

In the next phase of it struggles, the Tunisia working class must centre it activity on smashing wag control, splitting the UG from the government part and building an independen labour party based on thi fight.

It is only in this proces that the revolutionary leader ship can be forced to direc the struggles to win th demands of Tunisian worker in the overthrow imperialism.

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SOCIALIST PRESS, Wedi "lack of frankness" and that.